Tanzania Update
Velicky
Description
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Title:
Tanzania Update
Creator:
Velicky
Date:
1/15/2000
Text:
Dear Colleagues,
From 1992 until 1996 I worked in Tanzania, East Africa in the P&O
department of an 800 bed hospital called Bugando Medical Centre (BMC).
The hospital serves a catchment area of six million extremely poor
Tanzanians. The P&O department is not self sustaining and is always in
desperate need of prosthetic and orthotic supplies.
Practitioners in the U.S. can easily send donations though an organization
called Americares which is based in Connecticut. Americares, in turn,
sends a shipping container with other medical donations to Tanzania every
four months.
Appropriate donations would be new or used exoskeletal or endoskeletal
prosthetic components, new or used orthotic components, and fabrication
supplies.
The shipping instructions are below. Please contact me if there are any
questions.
Thank you,
Bill Velicky, CP
Cambodian School of Prosthetics and Orthotics
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------
The contact for BMC at AmeriCares for any questions is Ariela Torgersen 203
972 5500 or 800 486 HELP.
1. When you are ready to send a donation to AmeriCares for BMC please send
the following information to Ariela Torgersen:
- Date you are sending the donation
- Number boxes you are sending
- Detailed list of contents
- Value of donation
- Name and address of the person to acknowledge for the donation
Mail the letter to:
Ariela Torgersen
AmeriCares
161 Cherry Street
New Canaan, CT 06840
e-mail
<Email Address Redacted>
or fax:
203 972 0116
2. Mail product to:
AmeriCares Warehouse
125 Old Gate Lane
Milford, CT 06460
**FOR BMC TANZANIA**
It is very important to put in bold lettering FOR BMC, TANZANIA on the
boxes - they will automatically be put in a special area for the next
shipment.
Please put a copy of the contents list in the box. On the return address
put
your name and address. The warehouse will inventory the items as 4 boxes
of
supplies from Dr. Smith, see attached list. I will also know what the
product is from the list I received previously and have in my pending
donation file. The warehouse however, does not always open & search every
box it receives for BMC, as a result it is important to send a copy of the
list & information to Ariela.
3. Ariela will send an acknowledgement letter to every donor for tax
purposes. Once you receive this, please sign the receipt section and mail
or
fax back to AmeriCares.
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From 1992 until 1996 I worked in Tanzania, East Africa in the P&O
department of an 800 bed hospital called Bugando Medical Centre (BMC).
The hospital serves a catchment area of six million extremely poor
Tanzanians. The P&O department is not self sustaining and is always in
desperate need of prosthetic and orthotic supplies.
Practitioners in the U.S. can easily send donations though an organization
called Americares which is based in Connecticut. Americares, in turn,
sends a shipping container with other medical donations to Tanzania every
four months.
Appropriate donations would be new or used exoskeletal or endoskeletal
prosthetic components, new or used orthotic components, and fabrication
supplies.
The shipping instructions are below. Please contact me if there are any
questions.
Thank you,
Bill Velicky, CP
Cambodian School of Prosthetics and Orthotics
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------
The contact for BMC at AmeriCares for any questions is Ariela Torgersen 203
972 5500 or 800 486 HELP.
1. When you are ready to send a donation to AmeriCares for BMC please send
the following information to Ariela Torgersen:
- Date you are sending the donation
- Number boxes you are sending
- Detailed list of contents
- Value of donation
- Name and address of the person to acknowledge for the donation
Mail the letter to:
Ariela Torgersen
AmeriCares
161 Cherry Street
New Canaan, CT 06840
<Email Address Redacted>
or fax:
203 972 0116
2. Mail product to:
AmeriCares Warehouse
125 Old Gate Lane
Milford, CT 06460
**FOR BMC TANZANIA**
It is very important to put in bold lettering FOR BMC, TANZANIA on the
boxes - they will automatically be put in a special area for the next
shipment.
Please put a copy of the contents list in the box. On the return address
put
your name and address. The warehouse will inventory the items as 4 boxes
of
supplies from Dr. Smith, see attached list. I will also know what the
product is from the list I received previously and have in my pending
donation file. The warehouse however, does not always open & search every
box it receives for BMC, as a result it is important to send a copy of the
list & information to Ariela.
3. Ariela will send an acknowledgement letter to every donor for tax
purposes. Once you receive this, please sign the receipt section and mail
or
fax back to AmeriCares.
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Citation
Velicky, “Tanzania Update,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 1, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/213566.
